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This week sees the launch of the Digital Capability Exchange UK (DCXUK). The new platform-based not-for-profit initiative aims to create a collaborative resourcing facility across multiple tech services providers. The programme seeks to help participants better balance capacity and skills against the peaks and troughs of project delivery demands and it is designed to complement traditional recruitment and contracting models for talent acquisition and optimisation. Primarily focused on lower to mid-tier IT services suppliers, DCXUK's objective is to establish a flexible, scalable, pool of capability across its member ecosystem to improve utilisation and reduce costs.
DCXUK is the brainchild of three software development companies: public sector-centric Opencast (recently identified by TMV as "one to watch" in the vertical); AWS specialist Leighton; and Poland-based nearshore services provider Spyrosoft. The full-scale launch of the platform follows a successful pilot phase which has seen the network of participants increase to twelve organisations. All are reported to have seen early success in matching talent resource to their delivery needs.
The exchange will now undergo a phased roll-out as it continues to receive interest from tech business leaders from across the UK. Once their membership is approved, companies can provide talent for particular project opportunities won by fellow platform users and seek talent from others for their own confirmed engagements.
No IT services provider ever manages to sustain an optimum balance between demand, expertise supply and the aspirations and needs of its talent. Benches are invariably too big or too small, and their skills compositions are rarely in harmony with the flow of work as it is won, lost and completed. DCXUK certainly offers an additional mechanism for vendors, particularly those which lack scale, by which to better manage these perennial problems. How extensively it will be used, however, remains to be seen. In a market where its people play such a significant role in a supplier's differentiation and client stickiness, the decision to share capability --especially top talent - with competitors is far from an easy one to make.
Posted by: Duncan Aitchison at 10:11
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